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About EBNF
- To: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: About EBNF
- From: Jeffrey Franks <jfranks at quik dot com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 19:14:03 -0500
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Organization: MotifTools.org
- References: <3B5B81F6.1872432D@quik.com> <87elr7d5qn.fsf@nwalsh.com>
Norman Walsh wrote:
>
> / Jeffrey Franks <jfranks@quik.com> was heard to say:
> | Can someone please offer a suggestion. I'm at a dead end.
>
> The EBNF customization layer; see http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/
Cool!
Docs are thin.
On-line DocBook needs more attention in this area.
However, I'm able to express the bnf, but I can't figure out how to
connect
the description (several line paragraph) to the right-hand side.
Also, the example has a <nonterminal def="xxxx"> where xxxx ends up as a
a *hard* file link. How do I use that? Rendered output might be HTML or
PDF,
so how would we know filename at this point? Or is that a style sheet
issue?
The paragraphs in my requirements example were interspersed with each
bnf rhs definition. How can I retain that clarity for the reader
such that each element definition is associated with a particular
bnf term? Breakup the equation into multiple <productionset> with
interspersed <para> ?
BTW: PSGML seems to be brain dead regarding EBNF :(
Heads-up, is someone looking at that?
--
Jeffrey L. Franks (Web) http://www.motiftools.org
(Mail) jfranks@quik.com
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